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iain campbell
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i have two dwarf peach growing in pots ,produced some fruit but i thought they were being nibbled by birds--so make nice fleece tents for them--and--they made a nice cosy home for the slugs!!!which finished the job,going to have to think of a new way next year
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There are some bio and edible safe pellets on the market, I would use them and do, I don't like to wait for ages, sometimes years for a plant to grow, especially from seeds, just to have slugs finish it off over night.
Are they chemical, it says on the box...for use on all edibles
Just a suggestion here and no harm in trying it, my neighbour told me last week a little bit of beer in an empty jar e.g. a jam jar, leave the lid off and push the jar in to the soil at the base of the plant till the jar is level at the rim with the soil. the slugs supposedley navigate towards the beer for love of the smell and so they wind up trapped in the jar, too slimey to climb back out.
Korno, A jam jar holds an awful lot of beer........such a waste. You can use those wide plastic yoghurt pots, much shallower and drink the beer saved. Incidentally I have discovered that alcohol free beer also attracts the slugs. Not such a kind death though.
You only need put a little bit of beer - about 5ml, the jam jar needs to be big enough so that the slug stays put. A slug will just climb back out of a yoghurt pot having washed his foliage dinner down with a nice cold beer !